Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-05
STATE AND TEitIllTORY.
Nebraska JOttings


Nebraska Jottings.
Eighty teachers are attending the
Platte county institute at Columbus.
The Salvation army threatens to tackle
Plattsmouth and whoop up the "h Gods"
Hastings has been papered with the
posters of the Omaha fair and Grand
Army reunion.
Saunders county will harvest large
crop of candidates for Office the coming
fall. The yield and death record prom
iseS to be enormous
A faith healer in Kearney has been run
in for practcing without q permit The
genuine faith hceler confines his opera
tons to real estate and manufactured
booms.
The fifteenth annual Webster county
fair will be held at Red Cloud September
O, z. s and 8. The BEE has been favored
with an invitation and will be there by
proxy.
The residents OF Stratton elevated tho
peace of the town several pegs by escort
ing to the suburbs the leader of vile
gang and firmly persuading him to seek
other fields.
The Robert Hawke will contest in Ne
braska City has not been settled as re-
ported. An agreement has been made to
permit the probatiDg of thu will. except.
ing the restrictions placed on the SON $
share of the estate.
The pretty Wymore widow who bluffed
sandless band of moral regulators re.
Gently, has been married to prominent
citizen who fell in love with her pluck
and plump figure. This incident opens
up an air line to the state of matrimony.
S. A. Seacord, one-legged hash
| monger, of Hastings has skipped with
| blus,less widow named Brown. SeacOrd
leaves a wife and two children, n moder-
ate amount OF property. and vacancy
| IN the domestic structure more conven-
| lent than his company.
The Fremont Tribune's collection of
| gall for fall exhibition contained the fol
| loving capstone: "Fremonts .advant-
| ages for packing houses are 100 per cent
better than those of Omaha-there is not
the least question about this. This fact
| will be taken advantage Of"
| Isn't that breeze perfectly lovely"
sighed a David City girl to her beau, dur.
| lively-but why do you ask" "Oh, just
to give you a chance to say something,
| but see you haven't the nerve" The
| atmosphere cooled instantly and the gate
| post frOze to the ground.
| The thorough trouncing which Editor
Bluehdorn. of Nebraska City, gave the
| the aspiring tailor who called.On him for
/
of proof tha. the editor is buzz saw in
motion and dangerous to play with. 1t
| is only when two of them meet in festive
| embrace that communities tremble and
| umpires and referees are unable to de-
eide the victor. The courts settle that.
| The Nebraska City News takes promi-
nent rank in the nude art of lying, and
| swamps the distinguished professors in
Hastings. Here is a premium specimen
An Otoe county farmer had used dyna-
mite for the purpose of blowing several
old stumps out of the ground. Yesterday
he careessly left the dangerous com
pound lying by the side of II stump near
the quarry, intending to begin operations
this morning blasting rock. The dyna-
mite was mixed with sawdust and gave
an exceedingly pleasant odor, which at
tracted the attention of two OF the far
mer's hogs, which soon had converted
themselves into gigantic cartridges. The
stuff, when eaten, creates Il peculiar SEN
sation, which annoyed one of the hogs to
such an extent that 1t entered the stable
and began rubbing its side against post
at the mouth of mules stall. The mule
remained passive but for q few moments
when it gave the hog terrific kick in
the side. A Tremendous explosion fol
Lowell and after the clearing away o.
the smoke and dust the hog was to bt
found only in detachments, while Al
enormous aperture marked the spo
where 1t had stood. The mule received ;
tremendous shock, but was still intact
The other hog IS now running at large
greatly to the terror of the entire neigh
borhood.
| Iowa Items
Over hundred new buildings are il
process of construction at Cedar Rapids
Dubuque's assessment this year is $l7,
tt,nr lnGf ~
S2,Sl7Sl2. SO
Most all the republican county con
ventions now being held are formal
, indorsing Governor Larrabee's admins
| tratlOn.
. Bevington, twelve miles east of Win
, terset. has just dedicated its first church
though fifteen years old and in the mids
of a fine agricultural region. Until re
Gently it had five saloons. Now they ar
gone.
The Iowa State Jobber's and Manu-
facturers' association is making a care
> ful compilation of the discrimination
and will lay the matter before the stat
y railroad commissioners and geners
|. freight agents at the approaching NEE
i J. ing to be held at Des Moines.
a Dakota.
Watertown's assessed valuation is 81
0 10000
The Illinois Central road has staked
line to Yapkton.
. Huron's new Episcopal church will /
4 built of stone. 30x60 feet in size.
q The Deadwood branch of the Nortl
9 western will be completed to Whtewoc
Q by September l..
g Anamoss is destined to a first clal
d scandal and sensation, the full details
q which will be ventilated in the courts
9 few days. The case will involve viola
: tions of the United States revenue Law
8 perjury, etc.
n Two car loads of machinery for tt